Andrea Sofia Matos (Bayamon, Puerto Rico) is a curator and arts administrator with a concentration on contemporary art from the Caribbean, and their diasporas. Currently she’s the Arts & Wellness Coordinator at Urban Health Plan (UHP), where she is leading the development and implementation of a social prescribing of the arts program housed within UHP’s health centers in South Bronx, Corona Queens, and Harlem. The goal of the program is to measure how arts participation helps people and communities heal.
Her latest curatorial projects include I come from a place... a group exhibition that focuses on the idea of the distortion of memory through landscape and family archives at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn NY (April 2024). BotanicÁrte a group exhibition that celebrates artists as healers at Taller Boricua, Harlem (March 2024) and curated IN- ANIMADA a solo exhibition at Galería SPACE in Guaynabo, PR by artist William Norris Pagán (May 2023). She has also worked and collaborated with multiple organizations such as Puerto Rico Art News, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, LnS Gallery, The Margulies Collection, The Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA), Locust Projects, Bronx Art Museum, and more.
Andrea Sofia is a graduate student in Visual Arts Administration program at New York University (2024) and received her BA in Art History and Photography from Florida International University (2021).
